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That picture may be fake, but she WAS a beauty pageant contestant a few years back.

Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 12:52 AM

Why would you even care if a politician has at some point in their past worn a mini-skirt?

Posted by Pedro on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 03:34 AM

It's all about image, Pedro. It may be no big deal for a normal person. But a VP candidate is not a normal person. They're supposed to project an air of authority and gravitas, which they can't do in a miniskirt.

For instance, Obama is a smoker (trying to quit), but a picture of him smoking would project the wrong image to the voters. Thus, his campaign has gone to extraordinary lengths to block all such images.

Remember that picture of Dukakis in a tank? For a normal person it would be no big deal to look stupid in a tank. But as a presidential candidate, that image alone probably cost him the election.

Posted by The Curator in San Diego on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 08:43 AM

Until the GOP proves otherwise, I'm still convinced that it's real, and I'm going to continue to tell everyone I know that it's real...especially those nice old, religious, conservative voters in places like Tennessee and Kentucky. I suspect they would be completely turned off by a picture like this, and might even stay home in November.

Karl Rove has taught me well.

Posted by Pumalicious! on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 09:48 AM

Just wait until those pictures of Obama in a miniskirt are leaked.

Posted by Sakano in Ohio on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 01:40 PM

Damn you, Sakano! You beat me to the joke.

Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 05:42 PM

Pumalicious!, DOITDOITDOIT.
Coming from Tennessee, I know all too many people like that. >.<

Posted by Lucy Boomcrackle on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 09:46 PM

"It's all about image, Pedro."

Which is a pretty succinct summing-up of everything that's wrong with American politics.

Posted by Dumbfounded on Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 07:44 AM

I thought for sure that her candidacy for VP was going to be the real hoax...

Posted by fuzzfoot on Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 09:23 AM

Speaking of bizarre stuff about Sarah Palin, she has five children, whom she named Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig. Obviously, she hates her own kids. Willow and Piper are weird but sort of believable as names. But Track and Trig??? What kind of names are those??

Posted by Big Gary on Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 11:28 AM

Maybe Sarah Palin just drives around town and picks the names for her kids from things she sees as she goes.

"Look, a discarded trigonometry text book!"

"Hey, a railroad track!"

"Up in the air, a Piper Cub!"

"Oooh, an empty bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream."

"Honey, is that an elm tree or a willow? Willow? Gotcha."

Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 01:30 AM

The one in the miniskirt is the real pic. Than fangirl lifted the face from it, and pasted it next to her own.